The 404th Luojia Lecture, titled “How does culture change our city?”, was given by Associate Professor Chen Bo from the National Institute of Cultural Development of WHU. Chen Bo is giving the lectureThe lecture focused on the cultural industry and urbanization, which is a grounded topic closely related to the daily life of citizens. This topic of common concern attracted not only stu...

In mid-November, Prof. Lin Shaohua from the College of Foreign Languages in the Ocean University of China, who is also known as the translator of Haruki Murakami’s works, was invited by Lecture of Liberal Education in WHU to deliver a speech on his experience in translating Haruki Murakami’s works. Mr. Lin delivering his speechHaruki Murakami through Lin’s eyesAs the most popular Chi...

Zhang Lina, professor at the School of Chemistry and Molecule Science of Wuhan University, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was recently featured in an interview with the journal Chemistry World.She solved the toughest problem about the poorest soluble biomass macromolecule, i.e., the dissolution of cellulose and chitin with the help of her original low-temperature water solvent rec...

Recently, the Wuhan University (WHU) Department of Sociology joined hands with SAGE—one of the most influential academic publishing groups in the United States—to issue an English periodical named Chinese Sociological Dialogue. As the very first WHU periodical written in full English as well as the third English academic periodical in China’s field of sociology, Chinese Sociological Dialogue...

An impressive news report covers not only the news itself, but also peoples’ feelings; a competent journalist records both basic truth and the humanity behind the event with no hypocrisy. An experience-sharing lecture named how to dig into humanity with a news report, was held in the evening of Nov. 5th by two professional presswomen Zhang Han and Zhu Liudi. Both of them were former senior jou...

The University 8th Young Teachers Teaching Competition was held on Nov. 1st. Three faculty members of Economic and Management School, Wuhan University attended in the final and gained outstanding performance. Prof Guo Lin from the department of world economics awarded first place in the bilingual teaching section, Prof Hu Jingjing from the department of economics won the second prize and Prof S...

On Oct. 16-18, 2016, the 6th International Business School Shanghai Conference was held at Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Prof. XIE Danyang was invited to give a speech at the session “Win-win collaboration between business schools from China and ‘One Belt One Road’ Countries”.Prof. Xie first analyzed China’s strength in leading the “One Belt O...

On September 9th, the world-renowned academic journal Nucleic Acids Research (IF=9.202) published online the research paper by the team led by Professor Wu Min from School of Life Sciences at Wuhan University. It is discovered that E3 ubiquitin protein ligaseSPOP/CUL3 compound participates in the regulation and control of the alternative splicing of mRNA through the ubiquitination of histone me...

On September 8th, Cell Chemical Biology published the latest research findings on the Ebola Virus by Zhou Xiang’s research group from School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University and Zhang Bo’s research group from Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS. The article, titled “Chemical Targeting of a G-quadruplex RNA in the Ebola Virus L Gene”, provides the first evidence that G-quad...

During August 26th till September 9th, the second session of the Biological Diversity Beyond Areas of National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) predatory committee was held at the UN headquarters in New York. Professor Qin Tianbao attended this meeting as the legal consultant of Chinese delegation, at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the State Oceanic Administration. Professor Qin is th...